Hello, I'm John Eldridge, and welcome to the Ransomed Heart Audio Podcast.

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I want to start with the Parable of the

parable of the Minas from Luke 19. While they were listening to this,

Jesus went on to tell them a parable

because he was near Jerusalem

and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to

appear at once. He said, a man of noble birth went to a distant country to have

himself appointed king and then to return. So he called

ten of his servants and gave them ten minus. Are you going to be flipping pages

while I'm trying to read this.

I'm just opening my Bible.

A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.

So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minus, put this money to work, he said,

until I come back.

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation

after him to say, we don't want this man to be our king.

As we were praying about today's podcasts and probably a few podcasts in addition to this one,

we were asking Jesus what he had for us this week and

what he wants to address and somewhat to our surprise he said leadership

yeah and then among a number of things he brought to mind the

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